Helped support positive attachment and bonding between mothers and their children through the development of age appropriate activities and providing a safe and healthy environment.
HI My name is Amanda Bush I am 24 years old and a graduate of Chico State! My degree is in Child Development, Bachelor of Behavioral Science.Welcome to my page!
In my personal life I enjoy swimming, Swimming is a huge stress reliever for me I swim often to calm myself down and for the love of the water. My swimming has lead to my love and challenge of scuba diving.
I also enjoy painting, when I have the opportunity I love to paint. I have taken many art classes and have completed two paintings.
I also enjoy walking. I walk everywhere. Walking helps me think, and is great exercise.
My new interest has been gardening, I organized a garden party where friends and family each brought a plant to plant. My garden is beautiful now and I am developing a green thumb.
To try something in a new field or work indirectly with children and/or families.
I hold a site supervisor permit.
I have played Piano since I was a small child.
I try to scuba dive when I can. I was certified in Monteray, Ca. I continued to dive in Hawaii.
This was a reflection paper that I wrote concluding my internship work in the infant center located in the ASCDL. I was given a series of questions to reflect upon and answer.
This is a behavior Guidance report written in my 392 lab class. For confidentiality purposes I have removed the child's name and replaced it with ___.
CDSA stands for Child Development Student Association. Its members meet every other Thursday. The club is dedicated to advocating about children and children's programs. Child development professionals often speak at meetings. Money raised at fundraisers and functions is given to needy families.
Please feel free to visit this webpage that was created for a class my senior year. The webpage is about issues in child development. My focus area was on youth crime and gang involvement.
Startegies I have used to work with "Challening Children"


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Modeling career
Fashion, Fashion Photography
Backstage Photoshoot Video
Backstage photoshoot of the new video by David Lundins
Art & Photography, Exhibitions, Fine Art
EMANUELE FIORE AT SOTHEBY'S – AUCTION
Congratulation and thank you to all those who participated in Take Home a Nude and congratulation to Emanuele Fiore and his artwork "Beauty", that has reached the maximum possible bid on Paddle8. The evening was a tremendous success with nearly 800
Canova Prize, the day after
''I'm pleased, honored and humbled to announce that the artwork Sex has been selected and exposed during the Canova Prize international award. A very special thanks to Canova team for selecting me and congratulations to all of this year's nominees
Canova Prize
What's Canova Prize? Waiting for the award completely dedicated to contemporary art. It is now customary that Canova, promoter of the homonymous prize, identifies itself, in an important international city, making it a cultural HUB and a center of appreciation for artists
Art & Photography, Art Photography, Exhibitions
Take home a nude, Sotheby's Auction
''I'm beyond excited to announce that two of my artworks, Payroll and Model Permit, for the second year in a row have been selected and exposed at Sotheby's during the Auction Take Home a Nude. A very special thanks to
Take home a nude 2017
For more than two decades, the New York Academy of Art Take Home a Nude gala and benefit auction has playfully acknowledged art's most traditional – and controversial – subject. Current and former students along with such artists as Ryan McGinness, Philip Pearlstein
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Leaders new to a team have the unenviable task of getting results, building trust and establishing credibility. All the while they are learning their new role, and possibly even a new company.
For some leaders, doing one or the other is attainable, but doing all simultaneously can be a daunting task. It can be a delicate balance at times, and giving attention to everything at once can be a bit overwhelming.
Whether the leader is brand new to leadership, or new to their team, or is a seasoned leader in a new company, the ability to quickly establish change can make or break the leader as well as their teams, and possibly the organization.
During this time you should make every effort to connect with as many people in your company as you can. At the same time, immerse yourself into the company culture: values, mission, goals, and current (if any) strategic plans. You want to find out who your people are, what strengths they bring to the team, and how aligned they are with the company culture. At the same time, you will be promoting the culture and re-establishing everyone's belief in the organization and where it's headed. Getting everyone connected to yourself, and more importantly to the greater vision and mission is the primary objective in the first 30 days.
As you are laying the foundation of culture among your people, you'll be seeing how things operate and looking for ways to execute flawlessly. Brands are built internally first, by insuring the business model and daily operations support the culture and effectively serve your clients and customers. Take this time to really focus on training, procedural simplification, process improvement, and other efficiencies that will make your brand more consistent and reliable. The best marketing campaign for any company is wasted money if the service cannot be relied upon.
Now is the time to plan marketing, strategic growth and revenue opportunities. By this time you have started a trajectory that will enable you to capitalize on the work done thus far. Now you can confidently say your products are better than the competition because of the attention to quality. You can promote best-in-class service because your people are engaged. And you can find new methods to increase top-line revenue and control your costs that will allow the organization to fund new initiatives, hire more people, and impact more customers.
These 30-day increments are designed to make the most of the foundation needs of the organization before moving on to the next phases. That doesn't mean in the first 30 days you won't need to worry about operations or profit & loss (these are daily focuses from the first day). But you'll need to make the concerted effort to enhance the culture, then the brand, then the growth that will become the springboard for change and results. And through this 30/60/90 day cycle, you'll see results in your metrics at the end of each month that will show how effective this approach can be.
Many new leaders have a 3-month, 6-month, and first-year game plan to create impact in their new role. But in our faster world, you'll need to set up a way to hit the foundational touch-points both quickly and solidly. Set the ripple effect from Day 1 that allows culture and people to permeate operations and ripples through sustained results and future growth for your organization.
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The Testing #1 : The Testing
August 14, 2015 / Pat Frade
Reading/Interest Level: Young Adult
Author: Joelle Charbonneau
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
It's graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale. All Cia can think about is whether she'll be chosen for The Testing, a government program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. The government has the last university program available to those select few chosen to rebuild the country. But to enter this selected group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her what little he remembers of his own "testing" experience. His final words before her departure are "Cia, trust no one". Upon arriving at Tosa City, the candidates enter into the testing – a series of tests which evaluate the candidates' skills in nearly every area—from intelligence and cleverness, to leadership and loyalty. A candidate must pass or be redirected (never to be seen again). Some of the tests have life or death consequences.
The Testing is a chilling, suspenseful dystopian science fiction adventure with some similarities to The Hunger Games. There's a fair amount of violence -- including a suicide and a death by nail shot through someone's eye -- but the female teen protagonist in particular does not take any killing lightly. The language in the novel is very tame ("hell" and "damn"), and the level of sexual content (kissing) and substance use (two instances of celebratory drinking) are very low.
August 14, 2015 / Pat Frade/ Comment
Outstanding, Young Adult, Joelle Charbonneau, Examinations, School, Missing Persons, Dystopian World
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Did L. Ron Hubbard practice "reverse Scientology"?
Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, and his followers have repeatedly accused Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige of practicing "reverse Scientology," which they say is designed to ensure that people never get gains and that Scientology dies out.
I've never bought into this idea, insisting instead that David Miscavige is simply following in L. Ron Hubbard's footsteps — y'know, one scoundrel following the instruction of another. But now it looks like I might have been wrong. Reverse Scientology exists – and it was invented by LRH!
I made this discovery in this article by Gerry Armstrong, which quotes from a 1956 bulletin in which LRH wrote:
"Great revolutionary movements fail. They promise unlimited freedom. That is the road to failure. Only stupid visionaries chant of endless freedom. Only the afraid and ignorant speak of and insist upon unlimited barriers.
"Fixed on too may barriers, man yearns to be free. But launched into total freedom he is purposeless and miserable.
"A race which is educated to think in terms of freedom only is very easily entrapped."
— LRH, Professional Auditors Bulletin 84, THE REASON WHY, 15 May 1956
Okay, did you get that? According to LRH, complete freedom is a bad thing.
Ten years later, LRH wrote:
"Having had some time to think this over and having studied the matter with great care, I have isolated the most successful response to meeting any and all attacks on Scientology, its organizations and Scientologists and as of this date this becomes policy. ADVOCATE TOTAL FREEDOM.
"This is also the basic purpose of Scientology and the basic purpose of people, so it all agrees well.
"SCIENTOLOGY IS THE ROAD TO TOTAL FREEDOM.
"The precise practice of Scientology obtains total freedom." [emphasis added]
— LRH, HCO PL 15 Feb 1966, ATTACKS ON SCIENTOLOGY
And so began Scientology's Total Freedom bandwagon – despite that in LRH's own words, "only stupid visionaries chant of endless freedom."
I imagine the response from a Scientologist might be that LRH was constantly making new discoveries, and that new policies often replaced old ones. True – but the 1956 essay saying total freedom was a bad thing was incorporated in the book Fundamentals of Thought, and the passages quoted still remain as of the 2007 reprint (see for yourself).
So let's get all this straight:
1956: LRH says that total freedom is a fool's errand, and that a group that seeks complete freedom will fail and open themselves up to entrapment.
1966: LRH says that the goal of Scientology is total freedom.
So, basically, LRH turned his organization in the direction of pursuing something which will lead to ruin and entrapment. He instructed them to pursue something which he said cannot be obtained.
Isn't that Reverse Scientology?
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Lyon Airport appoints new commercial and marketing director
posted on 4th October 2018 by yumna
Aéroports de Lyon (Lyon Airports) is pleased to announce the appointment of Pierre Grosmaire as its new Commercial and Marketing Director, having taken office at the start of September.
Pierre will be in charge of developing Aéroports de Lyon's aviation offer, based in a catchment area of 12 million people within two hours of the airports as well as increasing revenue streams and spearheading passenger experience improvements.
Pierre joins Aéroports de Lyon at a crucial time: the recent opening of the new Terminal 1 as well as record passenger numbers (10 million) through Lyon Airport terminals and newly-announced destinations and airlines serving Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport.
Prior to transferring to Aéroports de Lyon, Pierre was the Aviation Marketing Director for VINCI Airports for 11 years, the holding group for Aéroports de Lyon.
In this role, he was responsible for the development of 44 airports within the VINCI Airports group such as: Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Santiago de Chile, Salvador de Bahia, Kansai airports, Phnom Penh and Santo Domingo, Lyon, Grenoble, Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand, Quimper, Rennes, Dinart, Nantes, Poitiers, Toulon, and therefore dealt with more than 200 airlines.
He also held the position of Marketing Director at Grenoble et Chambéry in France for 2 years from 2004 to 2006 when VINCI Airports started its operations in France.
Pierre was responsible for Network Development and the creation of a route development fund with collaboration with both public and private entities.
Aéroports de Lyon is indeed a passion for Pierre, he was the Market Research Manager at Lyon Airports from 2000 to 2003, in charge of statistics, forecasting, research and analysis.
Pierre graduated from the National School of Civil Aviation and specialized in airport and airline management at the Florida Institute of Technology in the years 1999-2000.


The ability to asses the knowledge and the training management process and content in its complexity comes very handy.
By creation of a training map, one can reveal whole new vulnerability surface either to defend or to attack.
For the research purpose, I have created sample data set.
It is composed first only from a static data: Content of the training and assignment matrix.
Then I have added the dynamic part: Actual people getting trained in time.
Model was built on my experience from academic environment, research institution, the two global pharma companies and two global consulting companies.
Ability to spear phishing increases with knowledge of skill set of the target.
Sending spoofed training content with malicious payloads only to interested parties help avoids detection.
Certain strings might be worth to save into the word list for later use.
Training content might include procedures, (IP) addresses, (network) maps, sensitive contact information.
Semantic map of knowledge management can point to areas not covered by training.
Training content might be valuable itself and thus become the attractive to malicious hackers.
Picture below shows the map of the classes, visualized as equal.
Trained personnel is less prone to social engineering both at work and also at home. It is crucial with home office and BYOD trends.
Mature training process is remark of overall maturity in the company.
Semantic map of the training can help with proper training assignment and tracking, regular update of the content, etc.
Compliance with more and more standards require proper addressing of training needs on time including compliant training tracking. Which is part of all Quality Management processes and standards.
So far I took into the consideration only static part of the process: The content.
Below is increased complexity showed in couple of pictures as dynamic part was included: The people. I have created generalized set of fictive employees and their training records.
First basic classification by "technically oriented" and "others".
Next I have added more sample categories of job descriptions to show the patterns in data. Each dot is one fictive employee.
Colors were added to show better the classification by "jobs".


This blog is for entertainment purpose only. Mostly mine, hopefully yours too.
Please note that in this blog I will at times criticize, mock, ridicule people (mostly contestants, although Jeff Probst is not immune).
If you're them, or part of their family, friends, die-hard fans, please don't get (too) offended.
Keep in mind that this is television.
We all know that the show is heavily edited. What we see may be real, but it's just a tiny teeny part of that reality and I'm fully aware that the contestants rich and lovely personality has been reduced and truncated to one or two main traits. In other words they have become characters.
In other words, I don't know any of the contestants personally (just exchanged a few e-mails and tweets with a handful, not enough to "know" them) and the people I will criticize, mock and ridicule are the characters who are shown on TV, not the real people whom I don't know and most likely never will.


This Glasgow hotel is a family run, traditional Georgian built hotel, recently refurbished to a very high standard. All our en-suite rooms offer their own charm and individuality, and whether it's business or pleasure that brings you to Glasgow, you will find a warm friendly atmosphere at our hotel.
Sorry, but we have no upcoming events for Argyll Hotel Glasgow. If you know of an event taking place at Argyll Hotel Glasgow or anywhere else in Glasgow tell us about it and we'll list it on the website, for free!


Leonie Gardens is tucked away in a secluded higher ground in the Leonie vicinity. Being generally on higher ground than other apartments, you can enjoy the good view and breeze if you live here.
Leonie Gardens is located near to the Central Business District. It is only 6 minutes walk to the Somerset MRT station, Orchard Road shopping malls, supermarkets, bookstores and restaurants, residents of Leonie Gardens therefore enjoy both the quiet retreat and city life.
Condo is ideally nestled in a quiet location just minutes away from Orchard Road.
Poor managing of the estate.
Rude and unreasonable management staff. Very unpleasant stay in Leonie Gardens.


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Hudson's selfie
Posted on April 7, 2019 April 7, 2019 by jimduff
From the Montreal Metropolitan Community's Portraits territoriaux, Édition 2019: Hudson's protected zones total 1,452 hectares, including the Ottawa riverbed (in black).
How are Hudson and its 5,192 residents planning for the future? Are we making wise decisions in regards to our physical and social development? Are those choices in harmony with trends in the Montreal Metropolitan Community (CMM) and our region of Vaudreuil-Soulanges?
Check out the latest CMM profile of Hudson (CMM Hudson portrait 71100).
In just 13 pages, this statistical selfie condemns the Town of Hudson to a slow decline of abandoned homes and impoverished seniors, the cumulative result of our ongoing failure to plan for the approaching post-baby boom demographic implosion.
Some assumptions are nonsensical, like the hypothetical disappearance of 235 of Hudson's 2240 households between 2017 and 2031. In Hudson, houses are demolished when they're flooded out or the land is more valuable than the structure occupying it. Addresses don't stop existing. Garbage in, garbage out.
There's plenty of cause for concern. The CMM stats point to an approaching affordable-housing crisis for Hudson's least affluent residents. The 2015 median (half below, half above) income for single-person households was $31,000 compared to a CMM median of $33,000. Ten per cent of Hudson's residents live below the poverty line. Some 70 households living in rental properties are struggling. Some 265 households spend 30% or more of their gross income on housing. Of those, 140 spend more than half; 35 households are eligible for subsidized rents.
Hudson is doing very little to accommodate the shift to affordable housing. Of the 94 social/affordable housing units listed in the CMM profile, zero are through the provincial AccesLogis program, zero are public low-cost housing units. (I assume the 94 represent Manoir Cavagnal units built under a federal CMHC program which continues to burden the administrators with ludicrous lending terms.)
Tied to that is a stagnation in housing starts. According to the CMM, Hudson issued permits for 19 housing starts in 2018, including three townhouses and zero apartments. We saw the same number in 2009 and 2017. Hudson's best-ever year was 2015, with 44 starts. The worst was the 11 starts in 2016.
Other data gives cause for hope. Close to 16 per cent of Hudson's population is listed as recent immigrants. That compares to 25% in the CMM as a whole, but it says to me the Lester B. Pearson School Board and the CAQ government did us a big favour by locating one of their new four-year-old kindergarten programs at Mount Pleasant Elementary School. I see Habitation Robert's 134-door Willowbrook project as a natural feeder as more and more of Quebec's mixed anglo/franco marriages confer eligibility to English public schooling.
Another cause for hope is Hudson's labour and employment profile. The employment rate for active members of the labour force aged 15 and over is almost 57%. (Across the CMM's 82 municipalities, the employment rate stands at 61%.) According to 2018 data, Hudson is home to 182 businesses. Retail employs the largest number of people by sector — 235. Teaching accounts for 210 jobs, followed by professional, scientific and technical services (195 jobs). Health and social services are tied with arts and culture, with 175 jobs apiece.
Well over half of Hudson's 182 businesses (104 to be exact) employ between one and four people. Another 37 provide work for five to nine; 24 employ 10-19 and 13 others employ 20-49. Two businesses employ between 50 and 99 people, while two others provide jobs for between 100 and 199 employees.
In terms of mobility, the CMM portrait has not evolved. More than 78% of Hudson residents depend on the automobile to get around. Just over 8.2% use public transit, while 8.9% commute on foot. Among non-residents coming to Hudson, 68% travel by car, 22% by other motorized means (motorcycle, scooter, boat) and 9% hoof it. Employment-related trips account for 16% of displacements from Hudson and 12.8% of the trips into town. Education represents 10.6% of trips made by Hudsonites and 15% of trips by non-residents. A third of all trips made by Hudsonites are within the town, while 55% are to CMM destinations (45% to Montreal, 9.4% to the South shore, 10% outside the CMM).
According to the Montreal Metropolitan Community's latest snapshot of its 82 municipalities, almost 60 per cent of Hudson's footprint is protected. According to this, the protected area extends halfway across the Ottawa River.
The CMM saves the best for last in its environmental assessment. Hudson's forest canopy — a measure of mature tree health throughout the municipality — accounted for 1,282 hectares in 2017, 60% of the town's total land area. Woodlots and green corridors represent 425 hectares, 20% of the town's total forest cover. Protected agricultural land accounts for 1,289 hectares; wetlands represent 184.5 hectares. Including agricultural lands and conservation areas, Hudson's protected areas represent 1,452 hectares — almost 60% of Hudson's total footprint.
Footnote: Waste management data shows considerable room for improvement. While Hudson had a 65% blue-box recycling rate in 2016, we're falling down on organics, with a 15.8% recycling rate. That was before Hudson initiated the brown bin collections, leaving one to wonder why they bothered to include data they knew was outdated.
What does the PMAD say about densification and transport-oriented development?http://cmm.qc.ca/fileadmin/user_upload/pmad2012/documentation/20120813_PMAD_eng.pdf
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Interview with Wayne Ewing
Wayne Ewing is the man behind some of the best documentaries about the late Hunter S. Thompson, such as "Breakfaster with Hunter", "When I Die" and his latest film, "Animals, Whores and Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter, Vol.2". Wayne took on maybe roles in his films such as Cinematographer, Director, Editor and Producer. They are very intimate and really feel like labors of love. There have been many documentaries about the late Hunter S. Thompson, but Wayne's films get a chance to get inside of his head directly. Movie Mikes had a chance to chat with Wayne about his relationship with Hunter and his films.
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Mike Gencarelli: Tell us how you originally met Hunter S. Thompson?
Wayne Ewing: In the early 1980's I found myself living in Woody Creek, Colorado not far from Hunter Thompson, who had always been a hero of mine. I had just finished two films as an independent producer for the PBS series "Frontline" and was looking for a new subject for a film for them. The word was out that Hunter was working in San Francisco as the Night Manager of the Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater which seemed a good hook for a film. The Executive Producer of Frontline, David Fanning, encouraged me to pursue the story, at my own expense of course, so I made contact with Hunter's secretary Deborah Fuller and flew her and myself to San Francisco to meet with Hunter. That weekend at the O'Farrell, a place Hunter called the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America, was more than you can imagine (see my vodcast "The O'Farrell" @ www.HunterThompsonFilms.com/vodcast for the lurid details). However, by the time I returned, David Fanning had chickened out and I realized I would have to make my own film about Hunter – what ultimately became Breakfast with Hunter.
MG: Was he a fascinating person to be around, I never had the chance to meet him?
WE: Hunter was charismatic to be sure, and moreover truly a lot of fun to hang with. His Mother would recall how when he was just five or six years old, all the other young kids in the neighborhood would gather on their front porch and wait, sometimes for an hour or more, for Hunter to come out to play. An invitation to Owl Farm, whether to watch football and gamble or work on a column or book with Hunter was a gift from the literary gods. He ran the best salon and saloon in the West.
MG: Did it take a lot of convincing to get Hunter to do the documentary "Breakfast with Hunter"?
WE: "Breakfast with Hunter" evolved out of that weekend in San Francisco. The next year, 1985, I found financial backing to make a pilot for a television series we were going to call "Breakfast with Hunter" – a parody of morning TV talk shows with a title suggested by Jack Nicholson. We paid Hunter to travel to Key West for the filming. Once again, check out my vodcast for the details. It was quite a trip. But I never sold the pilot or the series and Hunter began asking me to record various political events in Aspen that he was involved in. When cheap digital technology became available in the mid-nineties, I began shooting in earnest, and released Breakfast with Hunter in 2003, and then three other Hunter films, including the latest – Animals, Whores & Dialogue – all of which are exclusively available at www.HunterThompsonFilms.com
MG: Why did you decided to make "Animals, Whores & Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter, Vol. 2"?
WE: There was so much material left over after I edited Breakfast with Hunter and more that I shot after its release in 2003, that I thought I could make another documentary feature about Hunter concentrating more on his work as a writer and less on his flamboyant lifestyle. Imagine if someone had been able to record Mark Twain in the same way. The film is meant to be a documentary for the ages, and I've been gratified to receive quite a few library orders, along with fans who already have the earlier films, and new ones as well.
MG: Was it difficult for you making "When I Die", I think it is amazing that you were able to share that experience with his fans?
WE: Emotionally, it was quite difficult for me, since I had lost my best friend. But, in the end, like all funerals but even more so in this case, the process of documenting the construction of the monument (which went on for months), the struggle to get the community to accept it, and the blast off itself, gave me quite a bit of closure.
MG: What are your feeling on the film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", are you a fan?
WE: I'm a fan of Johnny Depp's performance in "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas", but not of the film itself, and I think the same was true for Hunter. Ironically, after Hunter got Alex Cox fired as Director for his insistence on using animation that Hunter called "cartoons," (see the famous scene in "Breakfast with Hunter" where Cox flees the kitchen at Owl Farm) the Producers of the film hired Terry Gilliam, who began his career as a cartoonist. Gilliam was in England, not the US, during the turbulent sixties and prides himself on having never taken drugs, so perhaps he was limited by his own lack of experience.
MG: Have you had a chance to see "The Rum Diary" yet?
WE: No, but I'm looking forward seeing "The Rum Diary", hopefully sometime in 2011.
MG: Do you have any more plans to make future film about Hunter S. Thompson?
WE: Probably not a feature length documentary like the last four, but look for new, short scenes to be released in the future on our web site – www.HunterThompsonFilms.com – especially about "The Rum Diary".
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Interview with David Walton
David Walton is the star of the new show on NBC's "Perfect Couples". David has also appeared in last fall's "Burlesque" and the upcoming "Friends with Benefits". Movie Mikes had a chance to chat to David about his new show "Perfect Couples" and his upcoming role.
Mike Gencarelli: Tell us about your new show "Perfect Couples" and your role of Vance?
David Walton: The show premiers January 20th on NBC. It's a comedy about three very different couples who are all friends. The show is based around the couples trials and tribulations due to being newly married or about to get married. I play Vance who is in love with a character named Amy. They are soul mates but probably would have been better off not ever meeting. Vance is a really passionate character and isn't afraid to say what he's thinking.
MG: How did you get involved with the show?
DW: I auditioned in early February of 2010 and I think they saw something in me they liked. It was a really quick and somewhat easy audition process. Within a couple weeks, I had the role and we shot the pilot in April. The show was picked up in May. We started shooting the series in August and shot 13 episodes. Everything has moved really fast.
MG: Tell us about how it has been working with your fellow cast?
DW: (Laughs) everyone gets along really well. I had known most of the cast previously and am friends with a lot of them. It was nice because we all have good chemistry with each other.
MG: How do you think the show will stand out amongst the other comedies?
DW:A lot of the comedies that are on television right now are work place comedies. Our show is a relationship comedy. Our show is very simple and it focuses on small moments in relationships that have happened to a lot of people at one time or another. I think our show is different because it's smaller and a little more real.
MG: How was it working with Cher & Christina Aguilera on "Burlesque"?
DW: That was great! Christina was very sweet. She always would be humming to herself in between takes so I would try and stick around to hear her sing. There was one scene where I had to be shirtless, so I went into the makeup trailer to make sure I was all set for that role and Stanley Tucci was in there doing the same thing. I don't know how old that guy really is but he is ripped and huge! I'm 31 and getting totally out done by this older guy. (Laughs) I ended up wearing a blanket for the entire scene of the movie. I was totally embarrassed.
MG: Tell us about working on the upcoming film "Friends with Benefits"?
DW: That's a role that probably won't make my mother or grandmother too proud. (Laughs) I have a scene where Mila Kunis walks in and I am on all fours wearing a horse type costume. Patricia Clarkson is dressed up as a fairy princess and is riding me! I play a FedEx pilot that she picked up at the airport. That was really hard to keep everything together while shooting that scene. Leather chaps aren't as uncomfortable as they seem! (Laughs)
Interview with Kevin Conway
You may not recognize the name Kevin Conway but you surely know his work. Of course, if you saw him in "Funny Farm" or "Mystic River" you still might not have known his name because he doesn't appear in the credits. Billing counts in Hollywood and if you can't be featured it's best not to be mentioned at all! After beginning his professional life working with IBM he pursued acting by studying at the Dramatic Workshop at New York's famed Carnagie Hall, later moving on to the famed HB Studio. He soon found himself doing regional theatre, including what he calls his favorite role, that of Randal P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." He made his Broadway debut opposite Charles Durning, Stacy Keach, Sam Waterson and Raul Julia in the play "Indians." In 1973 he won critical acclaim for his role as Vietnam veteran Teddy in Mark Medoff's play "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder." Among his other theatre triumphs: the role of Dr. Frederick Treves in the Broadway production of "The Elephant Man" and Lawrence Garfinkle in both the New York and Los Angeles productions of "Other People's Money." He made his film debut in 1971's "Believe In Me" and gained recognition as Weary in "Slaughterhouse-Five" that same year. He also has the distinction of having starred in the first film made exclusively for PBS, "The Lathe of Heaven." Mr. Conway has appeared recently on the popular CBS television program "The Good Wife." When he's not working he devotes his time and celebrity to a great cause: the rescue and adoption of animals. He recently appeared in a PSA to benefit the Best Friends Animal Society (you can view here) and encourages his fans to either visit their web site – www.bestfriends.org – or their local no-kill shelter and find a home for a new friend. He also recently started his own web site – www.kevinconway.com – which is currently under construction. Mr. Conway recently took the time to sit down with MovieMikes and talk about his career:
Michael Smith: You won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for your performance in the off-Broadway show "When You Coming Back, Red Ryder?" Did you feel like you had "made at" after being recognized for your work?
Kevin Conway: Absolutely. Before that even. I had done several plays before "Red Ryder," including my favorite role, McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which I did for almost two years in New York and Philadelphia. I couldn't wait to get on stage every night. It's really American mythology, that whole play. McMurphy being the tragic figure…not that something bad has happened to you but knowing in advance that something bad IS going to happen to you. But you have to do what you have to do anyway. It's like Oedipus…just don't ask who your mother is. Let it go. And he can't let it go. That role is still the most satisfying I've had. I've been very lucky. Even before that. My first play in New York was a John Guare play, which wasn't too shabby. And the second one was a play called "Saved," directed by Alan Schneider, one of the great stage directors of that era. Alan did the premieres of all of the Becket and Albee and Pinter plays. And it was an important play. It was an English play and at the time England had a person called the Lord High Chamberlain. The Lord High Chamberlain would go to a play and if he didn't like it…if he didn't think it was a suitable play for the public…it was over. Gone. He would withdraw their license to perform. Edward Bond was the writer of "Saved" and other plays. He went to court over "Saved" and the court ruled that his work was free speech. Nobody forces you to go to a play. If you don't want to go see it don't go see it. The play has a right to be performed. And I did the play in the states with James Woods. It was a very controversial play. So that was really the first time I did anything that got noticed. I then did a play called "Moonchildren." I was a little long in the tooth to be playing a college kid, but then so was the rest of the cast, which included James Woods, Stephen Collins, Christopher Guest, Edward Hermann, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker and Robert Prosky. And even though it didn't make it to Broadway there was a big hue and cry because of the way it was mishandled…the way it was publicized. We started off in Washington D.C. I had just finished filming "Slaughterhouse-Five" in Czechoslovakia and went right into the show. I spent one day in New York and then went down to Washington. From there I moved on to "Cuckoo's Nest" and then to "Red Ryder." Then I did "Of Mice and Men" (with James Earl Jones) and then I went Hollywood for a few years! (laughs) I came back to New York and did "The Elephant Man" for two years, than I did the television production of "The Elephant Man." Then back to film and television for most of the 1980s. Then "Other People's Money" came along and I did that for two and a half years. I also directed the show in Chicago and San Francisco and starred and directed the show in Los Angeles, which was very successful. It ran almost a year there. And I have to tell you it all went by fast. I turned around and it seemed like I had just done "Red Ryder" the other day!
MS: Your first major film role was as gangster Vince Doyle in "F.I.S.T," which was Sylvester Stallone's follow up to "Rocky." What are your memories of that production?
KC: Well, the film was shot in Dubuque, Iowa and one of the reasons they chose Dubuque was that the film took place in the 1930s. They needed a place where there weren't a lot of television antennas. Dubuque was one of the first towns in the country to have cable television. It was like an experiment to see if cable was viable. So because of that the town was perfect architecturally to play the 1930s. Lots of old trucks and warehouses. It was perfect. I was a little nervous, being the big city kid, thinking I was going to go crazy spending months in Dubuque. But it turned out to be a very friendly town with lots of great things to do…mainly involving alcohol. (laughs) On our off days. So we filmed there and then went to California for a lot of the interior work. And that's how I ended up in Hollywood. I just stayed there for a couple of years.
MS: You worked with Stallone again when, as director, he cast you in "Paradise Alley." As "Paradise Alley" ends it's revealed that your character, Stitch Mahoney, secretly wears women's undergarments. Can you share how that came about.
KC: That came about because I have a big mouth! We were having lunch and I was talking about what a strange, repressed little Irish guy Stitch is. He's always talking about his mother and he's got his gang of thugs. But on the other hand, there's something a little "off" about him. So I said to Sly, "you know, I bet that under all the black clothes and the fedora…the stickpins and the black gloves and the gold teeth…I bet he wears garter belts and women's underwear. Stallone stopped eating and looked at me. "I love it!" (delivered, I should say, in a perfect Stallone voice). So we wound up shooting two endings. One where there is a big battle in the ring and I get thrown out. And one where I'm wearing break away pants, which come off when the guy grabs me. And it had to be ME getting thrown out of the ring, because I had a line to say as the guy holds me over his head. So we did about ten takes of me being thrown out of the ring from various angles. And I became an honorary stunt man. Stunts Unlimited gave me a hat that said that. And they were incredible. They basically had to catch me each time and it's almost like a science. Each one of them takes a different part of your body as their responsibility so that when you come flying out of the ring somebody goes for your hips and somebody grabs your head and neck and somebody grabs your legs and you fall on them and they act like they're being crushed but they are really taking care of you. I didn't get a scratch on me.
MS: I visited NYC the day AFTER "The Elephant Man" closed on Broadway! You starred in the production as Dr. Treves and later reprised the role in the television version. How do you continue to perform a role for so long without losing focus?
KC: People ask me that question a lot. "How can you do the same play eight days a week?" And I tell them it's like walking into a party or some kind of event. You get a sense of the atmosphere. Sometimes you feel like the party is going to be a dud. You can just tell…there's no energy in the room. The next one you walk into you can feel a spirit going on. It's always different. Different people create different energy. So each audience is different. And I always approach the theatre as if I'm doing it for the very first time. It's always an investigation. And any good actor will tell you that from the moment the play gets started and you begin doing it over and over again you're really not doing exactly the same play. Your own mood, your own sense of the energy you have that day…you start investigating the moments in the play and you find that they change. Sometimes in subtle ways…sometimes in pretty big ways. The very last performance I did of "The Elephant Man" with Philip Anglim…we found a moment. We got off stage and looked at each other and said, "Damn, why didn't we do that? Why didn't we find this nine months ago?" It was a great little moment that we had and we found it in the very last performance. Of course we found others during the course of the show as well. But there is something about theatre that has an immediacy. And it's really your life. If you're doing live theatre you're not going to be able to stay home and watch "Jeopardy" every night.
MS: Can you tell us about how "The Elephant Man" came about?
KC: The show started out as a small play in London called "Deformed." It played at one of the smaller fringe theatres…almost a warehouse really. It was a small, fringe theatre production and it didn't go anywhere. But it happened to be seen by Philip Anglim, who was on vacation in London. And he saw it and realized there was a good part for him (Anglim, like Mr. Conway an American actor, would go on to receive Drama Desk and Theater World Awards for his work in "The Elephant Man," as well as a Tony Award nomination. When the show was performed for television he also earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations). He persuaded a producer friend of his to bring it over here. It started out as a very limited production. It was only scheduled to run for about two weeks. And at the last minute the producer got a special off-Broadway contract so that, if we could, we could make it an open ended run. There was no theater. When the show started we were working in the basement of a church on Lexington Avenue that had about 60 seats. He had to rent chairs for people to sit in. We opened up and I never had this experience…by the second or third night I knew it was going to be a hit just from the audience reaction. We opened and the reviews were fantastic. So we moved to Broadway. But because where we originally were was so small, the set had to be totally reconceived for the bigger Broadway stage. And we wanted to wait for the Booth theatre, which is the primary theatre on Shubert Alley. And so while we waited for the Booth to come available I went down to Texas to make "The Lathe of Heaven." I had about ten days before we re-opened on Broadway so I flew to Dallas and shot the film.
MS: You also played Johnny Friendly in the Broadway production of "On the Waterfront," a role played so memorably in the film by Lee J. Cobb. Was it hard to step into a role that so many people already have a preconceived notion of?
KC: The thing about Johnny Friendly…Lee J. Cobb was perfect. Nobody could do it better than him. He's in the movie that's the classic. Nobody could top it. In the original Budd Schulberg story there is no happy ending. It's based on a true incident that really happened about a guy like Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando in the film, played in this production by Ron Eldard). He really did do what happens in the film…he testified. But in real life not long afterwards he disappeared. And nobody ever saw him again. And the character that Johnny Friendly was based on, he wasn't that big. Not like Cobb, who was physically imposing himself. There was something a little off with him. They hinted almost that there was a kind of homo-erotic relationship with boxers. And his power came from the position he had, not from his own physical strength. So we went more for that. There was still a big fight at the end of the play…I got my ribs cracked during that fight with Ron Eldard. But we went for it…we tried to do a good stage fight, which is difficult. You have to be careful when you have a knock down dirty fight on stage…you can't just go for it because you're doing it eight times a week. You don't want to make a mistake. I mean look at "Spider-man." You make a mistake and you don't have a show anymore. (Mr. Conway is referring to the new Broadway production "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark," which has had several cast mishaps and has gone through constant delays). We choreographed something that was pretty brutal for Broadway and one night I got hit in the ribs. Ron used to box so he could punch! So I wore a protective vest after that. But it was more that Johnny Friendly was dangerous because of what he could have done, not what he could physically do. And Ron also played Terry much differently than Brando. Which I think was right because you can't imitate the roles of a classic film that almost can't be improved on. James Gandolfini was in the show, as well as David Morse, who was playing the Karl Malden part. I really think the show could have been good but there was just too many backstage problems between financing and switching directors. The show never really gelled, never came together. I was hoping it would succeed because when you looked at the drama that was being performed on Broadway at the time it was primarily British plays. They would import them over with the British cast. The British cast would play for awhile then leave. They'd re-cast the show with American actors and then the show would close in a month. And "On the Waterfront" was purely and American story. And it had a cast that wasn't movie stars. When I won the Drama League award for the show I made a speech that might have been ill advised. I didn't have to but I did. All of the producers were there and I said, "you know, it used to be that Hollywood would come to Broadway to look for talent." That's where Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda and Jimmy Cagney…Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn. These people all came from Broadway. They were brought out to Hollywood by the studios because the studios wanted the "class" that came with having a Broadway actor. Cagney and Joan Blondell were brought out to reprise a small role they had in a show that was owned by Al Jolson. Jolson agreed to give the studio the rights to make the film if they agreed to take Cagney and Blondell. And I said what's happening now is that you have a play with me and Ron Eldard and Penelope Ann Miller and David Morse…we're not well known actors. We don't necessarily sell tickets. But we have good reputations. We've all done theatre. I'd probably done more than all of them. But the mindset became "if we can get a Hollywood actor who's between movies and get him to play this part for a couple of months we can get a big advance sale on his or her name." And if that actor leaves they'll get another, hopefully cheaper actor with a name. A play is about chemistry. You have to find the right chemistry between actors. You rehearse. If you can bring in a movie star and make your money back, that's fine. But don't forget to do plays that are worth doing with the right actors in them. And I said now it looks like Broadway is looking to Hollywood for actors to come slumming for a few months, when it used to be the other way around. I said I'm not really holding my breath to see Kevin Costner's "Coriolanus." These are movie actors…very good movie actors, but movie actors.
MS: You directed and appeared in the film "The Sun and the Moon." As an actor, what was your hardest challenge as a director and vice versa?
KC: I had a small part in the film. I did it to save money because I was very inexpensive. Zero. I didn't have to pay myself anything. It was the first, and last, narrative film I'd ever directed. I didn't expect to direct it but the original director fell ill and I had to jump in and do it. I helped them raise the money for it. It was a nice little film and I'm still proud of it. It's a film about the Puerto Rican experience in New York City and how, among all the Hispanics, the Puerto Ricans are the only ones who are American citizens. They can freely travel back and forth to Puerto Rico…they're not aliens, if you will. And it's caused a cultural schizophrenia. People have emigrated here from the island to get jobs and raise their kids, but then they want to go home. They want to go back to the island. But the kids don't. The kids become "Americanized." In New York they call them "Nuevo Ricans." And this causes an interesting dynamic because the parents tend to be more old fashioned and conservative in their values while the children were wilder. The story is about a woman who is from Puerto Rican heritage who lives with my character, a sort of Phil Donahue type who is a talk show host. And I'm a terrible husband…I cheat on her and everything. So she runs away from her comfortable Manhattan life style and the only place she knows to go to is where she was born, which was the South Bronx. And when she gets there she becomes involved with the people who live in her building…very different characters. The film got some very nice reviews but by the time it came to be released it was almost, may I say, too soft for the market. Even though it took place in the South Bronx there was no crime in it. No rats. There was a problem with the landlord but that was it.
MS: What do you have coming up?
KC: I'm leaning toward the theater. That's what I want to do next. I'm always open to offers. I was just offered something but I didn't like the part. I'm very lucky in that I don't have to take every part that comes along. This one was for a pilot and I really didn't want to do it…I didn't want to lock myself in. I'm really looking to do some theater. That's what I like to do. A short run…no two year shows anymore. If I could find a show here in New York and get those muscles going again, that would be great. And hopefully a big movie somewhere in Paris or Morocco or someplace else I've never been. I've been to Paris but I've never been to South America. Maybe something in Buenos Aires!?
Interview with Mark Pellegrino
Mark Pellegrino is starring in SyFy's newest show "Being Human" which premieres January 17th. Mark is known for his roles in ABC's "Lost" and "The Big Lebowski". Movie Mikes had a chance to chat with Mark about his role in the new show and looking back on his other roles
Mike Gencarelli: Tell us about working on the TV series "Being Human"?
Mark Pellegrino: It is a remaking of the BBC show. However we are only using the original as a template. We had decided we really wanted to venture out on our own and try to make the story ours. The story is based on a ghost, vampire and werewolf living together, all while trying to help each other with various character flaws and situations. I figure into this story in that I am the one who made the vampire character a vampire. He is trying his hardest to get away from my character and live more of a human life. I play I guess what you would call the temptress. The cast was really great to work with.
MG: Where you familiar with the BBC series "Being Human"?
MP: I wasn't really familiar with the series until I got the part. I was able to watch one episode and thought it was very good. I didn't want to watch very much because I didn't want to come up with any ideas that maybe I shouldn't have. I have been very tempted to go back and watch more but I wanted to stay locked in on our version.
MG: How do you feel the series differs from the BBC series?
MP: The main templates of the characters are directly from the BBC version but after that the characters go in the new original direction. I know my character in the BBC version has very different things going on than in our "Being Human."
MG: How was it being a part of the "Lost" universe?
MP: For me I have moved onto the next project but I think "Lost" is one of those things that never leaves you. That show was really special and it transcended a lot of stereotypes in television and became a force in itself. I think it's great that people continue to love and show their appreciation for the show. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.
MG: Can you reflect on working on such a cult film like "The Big Lebowski"?
MP: The cast was really amazing. I think that movie is one of the few that seems to just get better with age. I really can't think of too many other films that each time you watch it you get something different out of it.
MG: Tell us about working on the film "Capote", which you had a great performance?
MP: The experience of that filming was so great. Having the chance to pick such great actors brains like Phil Seymour Hoffman was unbelievable. It was really like a school of acting for me working on that film. I played the third wheel on that project and was the character that was always trying to get my voice heard. As an actor it was a phenomenal experience. I am glad it translated well and I could be a part of it.
MG: Do you have a favorite project?
MP: I could probably pick five projects that are really great but all for different reasons. "Lost" is a favorite as well as "Being Human" which was another great project but, it's hard for me to say. I think I am still looking for that one project that I have to really give 100%. All of my roles have been great though.
MG: Do you prefer working on movies or television?
MP: The thing that's great about movies, especially if you have a large budget, is that you can take your time and shoot a lot of film to ensure you get those moments. TV and independent films you often are shooting at a faster pace or what you can shoot is limited by the budget and things can get missed. The general public might not notice something small caused by that rushing pace but as an actor you instantly recognize that maybe you could have been better with more time. One bad thing though about working on those big movies is that it can take a lot of time. Sometimes you end up just waiting for hours until they are ready for you. It just really depends on the day that you ask me as to what I like more. There are pros and cons to each.
MG: What can you tell us about any upcoming projects?
MP: I have been writing my own script and have a few offers out there for it but with all the holiday stuff going on I have been laying kind of low. I think once everything slows down I will poke my head out and see what going on.
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Krystal tells Babe there will be big trouble for both of them when David finds out he is not Babe's real father and has no incentive to keep the secret about Bess not really being hers. But she promises to take the fall for her daughter and move out of town. They both attempt to get money out of the secret safe until they are caught be JR. JR goes to confront David about his secret. But David will not tell him.
Kendall announces that she will sell out her partnership of Fusion, because she cannot face Ryan and Greenlee is their joke of a marriage, and be hurt. Ryan tries to persuade her not to leave. But she does and she has a secret meeting with a man, sounding like she wants to spy upon Ryan. Bianca talks to Erica, telling her that she's shut herself out from her family and she might benefit from therapy. But Erica declines and says that her family has abandoned her and not the other way around.
ATWT by Linda
Pilar is thwarted in her murder attempt by Simon, but as the goodbye party progresses, she threatens Snickers when Katie comes up to feed him for the last time. Henry overhears Simon talking with Nancy and realizes that Simon has been in cahoots with Pilar the whole time. Tom makes an embarrassing accusation to Margo at the party. Ben catches Doc being a jerk to Jessica and they explain it away as a lawyer/client dispute, Ben telling Jessica she needs to dump him as a client. Roseanna invites Jordan to move in, much to Paul and Jennifer's chagrin.
B&B by Boo
Stephanie is in shock. The doctor says the baby is Ridge's and she just can't believe that could be true. Nick tells her it's Ridge's and she better get used to it. Thorne stops in to see Eric who greets him in the usual warm way, by asking him what he's doing there. He says he wants to talk about something Ridge did at the wedding. Before they get started Eric tells him that Brooke is in labor, and Ridge is with her, and they have reconciled. Thorn is shocked, wondering how his mother is gonna take that. Then he tells Eric that Ridge is overstepping his bounds by offering people jobs and telling people about the direction of the company. He says Ridge need to run things by him before he does that. Eric says Ridge ran it by him, but they thought Thorne was too busy with wedding plans to deal with it. Eric says they will all meet soon and clear the air. Thorne says they better because he doesn't intend to rubber stamp everything that Ridge wants.
Nick walks into his dark penthouse, and slowly walks through the room filled with new baby things. He stops at the Noah's Ark shaped crib, and winds the baby mobile. It softly plays a lullaby. There are tears in his eyes as he finds a picture of the first ultrasound in a book on the coffee table. As he's staring at it, his mother appears at the door. He tells her to leave. She tries to talk to him, but he again tells her to leave and walks out to the veranda. She wants to know if he told Brooke and Ridge. He says he did. She tries to console him by telling him he'll get over it. But he tells her he lost his family. She misinterprets what he means by that, and says they'll get through it together. He tells her it's her that was his family. She was the only person he could always trust, and now that's dead, and she may as well be dead too. Stephanie starts to leave the room but Ridge asks her to stop. He tells her he wants all the animosity to end. He wants her to be a part of his baby's life. He brings the baby to her and puts it in her arms. She says it's just like holding him when he was first born. A perfect, tiny baby. She kisses him and smiles at him. "Mama's little baby boy, aren't you?" She says softly, holding him very close. Everyone is smiling.
Bonnie reaches out to comfort Sami. Bonnie convinces Sami to go after Lucas but Lucas was already on his way back to his apartment with Amanda. Celeste runs an Internet search on Tek. Tek walks Lexie home from Alice's, both unable to resist the impulse to kiss goodnight.
Hope and Patrick get a flat tire in their rush to get to Jennifer. Jennifer agrees to go with Davies but secretly puts the battery back in her cell phone and e-mails Hope the serial number of the plane on her PDA. Hope and Patrick arrive just as the plane is taking off. Davies ignores Jennifer's requests to stop the plane. Patrick jumps onto the plane from Hope's car. Jack dreams that Jennifer is there to comfort him. Jack also dreams that he returns home, only to find Jennifer in the arms of another man. Marlena is convinced that Tony admitted that Stefano is alive. Tony explains that he was referring to himself as the Phoenix. Marlena refuses to let Roman and Abe beat answers out of Tony. Abe is angered at Tony's comments about Lexie moving on and attacks him. Roman and Marlena rush in to stop the fight. Tony points out that Stefano wouldn't have harmed his own son.
GH by Lisa
Faith stages an attempt on her life in order to frame Sonny. Michael overhears Faith telling Sonny that Alcazar is trying to kill him and Jason. Jason interrupts Sam and Sonny. Jason does not want Sam to spend so much time with Sonny. It could ruin their plans. Nico contacts Sam and threatens to expose her unless she meets with him. Lois refuses to take Alcazar's donation because she thinks it is connected to organized crime. She wants Jax to invest in L & B.
GL by Katie
Gus tells Alexandra about eloping with Harley. Alex figures out that Gus will go along with whatever Harley wants to do when it comes to the wedding. Gus talks to Philip about the upcoming wedding and Olivia. Harley tells Blake and Mel about her & Gus's decision to elope. They convince her that Gus would want a big, full-blown wedding since it's his first wedding. Harley talks about the wedding with Alex. Harley is also suspicious of Alex's sudden fondness of Gus. After Alex leaves, Harley figures out exactly what she's gonna do about her wedding.
Philip and Olivia spar over Emma's wellbeing and future. Bill and Josh talk about Bill's purpose for using a gun after Eden "died". Josh is worried about his nephew's emotional status. Olivia's concerned about Bill, too. While trying to become partners with him, she kisses him. Josh checks out Bill's trashed apartment and calls Billy. Cassie & Edmund discuss the future and their relationship. Cassie gets him to stay a while with her. They hear a noise; it's a bat! After freeing it, they end up kissing. However, Edmund pulls away and leaves.
OLTL by Kathy
A Santi thug grabs Carlotta and demands her bracelet. She escapes and runs to Antonio, who now tells John this is personal. Sara comes to the police station, and realizes Antonio is a cop. Antonio goes to the Hook Up and tells Sara's boss that he is a Santi and wants a piece of the action. John stages a firing in front of her to help Antonio infiltrate the organization. David takes Starr, Travis, River and Adriana to the country club for an afternoon swim. Starr and Travis have a little tiff, but quickly kiss and make up. Shannon goes into the cabana that River is changing in, and tries to seduce him. Adriana catches them and is extremely upset. She and River make up, and begin to make love. Asa enlists Margaret's help in bringing down Todd, after Kevin receives an anonymous note questioning his paternity with Ace. Margaret shows a photograph of herself and Todd in a compromising position to Blair.
Passions by Christa
Whitney apologizes to Fox for comparing him to the rest of the Crane men. They talk about Theresa. He asks Whitney what it was that Theresa did. Whitney pretends not to know. Fox says he thought he was the guy who was suppose to make Theresa forget about Ethan. Whitney asks if Fox would take Theresa back. He said that if she wanted to talk about reconciliation he certainly would listen. Luis and Sheridan are happy to finally be together. Sheridan tells Luis that Antonio let her go. She has a flashback of her telling Antonio that he could take her to the ends of the earth and Luis would still be in her heart and soul. So Antonio tells her to go before he changes his mind. Luis tells Sheridan Antonio is dead. Sheridan blames herself.
Martin and Catherine talk about their children and all the pain they caused them by leaving. Ethan and Gwen talk about having their own children. Ethan has a flashback of the night him and Theresa slept together. They head to the hospital for Gwen to see a doctor about getting pregnant. Theresa visits her mother at the hospital. They see the explosion on the TV but didn't realize what it was about and shut it off. Ethan comes into the room and realizes Theresa is there. He asks how she and the baby are. Pilar tells Theresa to get over Ethan. They talk about Martin. Theresa says she would never forgive him for leaving. Whitney calls Theresa and asks her to give Fox another chance.
Y&R By Christopher **One Day Ahead
Kay apologized to Gina for the spectacle she was at the Mother's Day Brunch. Gina doubted the stability of Kay's home life and refused to serve her more alcohol at the club. Arthur and Esther told Jill that they had no choice but to have an intervention for Kay. Either way they risked losing her. When Kay returned home drunk, Jill agreed that the time had come. An officer accused Devon of stealing a wallet. When Devon had 10 dollars less than what had been in the wallet, the officer was sure he'd done it, until Lily claimed to have loaned him 50 dollars. The officer called her a liar, and Drucilla came to her daughter's defense and made the cop back down. Back at home, Lily admitted to Dru that she'd lied to protect Devon. Dru advised Lily to keep her distance from the troublemaker. Devon showed up and Dru chastised him and told him he had nothing to offer Lily. Devon gave Lily the 50 dollars and thanked her for the loan, then left. Daniel told Mac she was different than any other girl he'd ever met. They nearly kissed, but left for coffee instead. Victor denied to Brad that he planned to use the Jabot settlement as a way to get visitation with Abby. Jack broke up a near brawl between the two and calmly told Brad not to worry, that Victor wouldn't get Abby, and that Jabot would not crumble. Cameron confided in Grace about his meetings with Sharon and Nikki, claimed they were trying to frame him for murder, said he'd turn them into the cops, and told Grace he'd be nothing without her. Grace crumbled in his arms and promised not to doubt him or his love. Cameron was pleased. Nick realized that Cameron is trying to frame Sharon for murder, and became very alarmed that Grace was alone with the man.


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Q: not able to find class in spark package HBaseContext I am trying to use "HBaseContext" through spark but not able fine any details all the details coming blank
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I am trying to implement some method explained here
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/08/apache-spark-comes-to-apache-hbase-with-hbase-spark-module/
can anyone help who has implemented any of these

A: Although HBaseContext already implemented and documented in HBase Reference Guide, but the author/the community has not release it yet, you can see from this link HBaseContext Commit History, the community is still working on it recently(there is no update for project SparkOnHBase for a long time), and for any download version of HBase, hbase-spark module is not included at all.
This is a big confusion for beginners, hope the community can improve it, to access HBase from Spark RDD, you can consider it as normal Hadoop DataSource, HBase does provide TableInputFormat and TableOutputFormat for this purpose.

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A major federal government agency has determined that the country has a number of social problems that need to be addressed. The leaders of this agency believe that the only way major public problems can be resolved is to create multi-organizational partnerships, or networks of collaborating organizations. Students are asked to craft a proposal to the agency that includes reflecting on the goal of the collaboration, how the partnership will be structured, how the network will be led and managed, what governance issues are likely to arise, and how will success be measured.


In 2014, over 40 million tonnes of electronic waste were generated around the world, up to 70% of which was discarded in China. China is the world's largest importer of electronic goods, and the world's largest importer of WEEE (e-waste). While importing e-waste was formally banned in 2000, China remains the largest e-waste dumping site in the world, receiving e-waste from the U.S., Europe, South Korea, and Japan. Despite the ban, e-waste still arrives in China though illegal means, mixed shipments, and imports through neighboring areas such as Hong Kong where the mainland China ban on e-waste imports does not apply. Hong Kong borders Guangdong Province, where Guiyu -China's largest recycling center – is located. Over 700,000 people are employed in the WEEE (e-waste) industry in China, 98% of whom worked in the informal recycling sector, where recycling practices are not sufficiently regulated to protect workers and environment.
China does not have a municipal e-waste collection network system in place, but has some company-sponsored takeback programs. Most of these are in urban areas, and as rural areas experience increased economic prosperity, means to recycle e-waste in non-urban areas will need to be addressed. Informal recycling of e-waste is prevalent in China, particularly in coastal regions. Any informal e-waste recyclers not registered with the state are illegal. The informal recycling sector has developed along with improving economics and standards of living in the country, and in the 1990s, imported e-waste began to enter China as a source for cheap second-hand goods and secondary resources. The most common outputs of informal recycling are second-hand components, refurbished appliances, and materials. Informal collectors in China are often rural migrant workers who travel door-to-door in urban areas to collect e-waste and then take it to recyclers.
Anyone in China can be an e-waste collector. However, those who are authorized collectors such as retailers, chain stores, and waste collection companies can participate in rebate programs when the government sponsors them. A 2009-2011 rebate program for home appliances and a national e-waste legislation enacted in 2011 temporarily increased the growth of the formal sector, but without rebate programs, the formal sector is less competitive than the informal sector. Formal recycling in China must be licensed by the provincial Environmental Protection Bureau. As of May 2012, 53 e-waste treatment enterprises in 15 provinces had this license. Most Chinese consumers do not willingly dispose of WEEE without financial compensation: many think that such goods are still worth money, further encouraging use of informal recycling where e-waste items are paid for up front.
China has two main e-waste recycling towns which have been studied extensively – Guiyu and Taizhou. These towns typify Chinese e-waste recycling. In Guiyu, where e-waste recycling has occurred since the late 1980s, 80% of families are involved in e-waste recycling. Most of the laborers are rural migrants who take jobs of dismantling and processing e-waste for an average wage equivalent to 1.5 USD per day. Most of these workers are women and children. A study of Chinese e-waste workers found they had significantly higher levels of PBDEs, lead, and other toxins in their bodies, leading to adverse health effects and interference with thyroid and other hormone systems.
India is the second largest e-waste generator in Asia, and more than 90 percent of the domestically generated e-waste ends up in the informal recycling sector. Almost 70% of e-waste generated domestically in India is from the government, public and private industrial sectors, while individual households account for only 15% of the total.
70% of the e-waste that is processed at recycling units in New Delhi are exported or dumped by developed countries. Delhi is the leading processing center of e-waste in the country: about 25,000 workers illegally refurbish up to 20,000 tonnes of e-waste annually. India generates about 3.5 million tonnes of e-waste every year, and imports another 50,000 tonnes from countries including the US, Canada, EU, Australia, and countries in the Middle East. A 2008 law bans import of hazardous waste, including e-waste, for disposal into India. However, import of waste is permitted for reuse, recycling, and reprocessing. E-waste still gets into the country through this and other significant loopholes such as policies that allow donation imports and porous ports with lack of enforcement capabilities.
India's informal recycling flourishes in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, and New Delhi. An estimated 25,000 workers are employed at unregulated e-waste scrap yards in Delhi alone. India has a lucrative refurbishing market fueled by cheap migrant labor. Informal recycling centers are usually located in urban slums. Many workers work out of their homes, exposing themselves and their families to toxins. Child labor is often used in this sector. A large source of domestic e-waste supplied to these recycling centers is collected by waste pickers who buy scrap electronics from households. Most imported e-waste goes to the informal recycling sector, and waste that is imported from developed countries that processors choose not to refurbish or dismantle often gets dumped into rivers.
In 2009, formal recyclers came together to form an association, but they face stiff competition from the informal sector and capture only about 10% of the total share of the e-waste market. The formal sector lacks sufficient collection and disposal systems and appropriate technologies, making it difficult for households to transfer WEEE to them. Formal recyclers also have licenses to import e-waste from abroad. Most WEEE items from households are refurbished and then resold – very few obsolete electronics actually end up in e-waste recycling and processing streams.
E lectronic and electrical goods in Ghana are imported mainly from Europe, North America, and Asia. Electronics imports into Ghana in 2009 were approximately 215,000 tons, with 30% being new products and 70% second hand or used goods. Many of the used items imported are labelled donations. The second-hand market in Ghana is large: most obsolete items go to repair stores instead of to municipal waste. Out of all the electronics in Ghana that were at the end of their usable life in 2009 , 57% went to repair, 34% to recycling, 8% to storage, and only 1% was collected in municipal waste.
Ghana has no current regulations for recycling and disposal of e-waste and does not enforce air water or soil quality standards. The Agbogbloshie market in Accra is the largest center for e-waste recycling and disposal in Ghana. Small recyclers work out of sheds and in the open. Soils near the market are covered in litter and industrial oils. Informal settlements next to the site have little electricity and running water. Most work done is by manual disassembly and burning to recover wire and coils, mostly by young adults (between 21-30 yrs) with no or little protective equipment. Pollution occurs through soil, air, and water contamination. Air pollution from burning e-waste affects not only those living near it, but also in the surrounding areas. Waste obstructs sewer systems and litter covers the ground. Children frequently come into contact with contaminated soils -a main source of toxic chemical poisoning.
In 2010, an estimated 360,000 tonnes of e-waste were informally collected and processed in Nigeria, of which 100,000 came from illegal imports and 160,000 from private households. Over 100,000 tonnes were alos collected through communal collection via household waste. Most electronics, new and used, arrives through the Lagos Seaport. Most of the used electronics arrives from Europe, but some also arrives from the U.S., China, Japan, Morocco, Canada, and Taiwan under the guise of donations. At least 100,000 tonnes of e-waste was entering the country illegally in 2010.
There are no WEEE recycling facilities in Nigeria. Reuse activities usually revolve around refurbishing mobile phones, but batteries and accessories generate a large contribution to landfills. Most crude metal dismantling is performed in Lagos, and from there is often exported to China or other Asian countries.
The informal sector is the major collector of e-waste, with waste pickers collecting from households or picking through dumps. This sector is dominated by young people, who then sell their scrap to others for recycling or repair. "Formal" recycling in the country involves pickers who scavenge through municipal dumps to remove items that still have value. About 20% of disposed items are refurbished, reused or dismantled in this way. Municipal solid waste facilities collect and burn all other waste before disposal into landfills. Most household waste ends up in open dumpsites and landfills after burning, leading to leaching of chemicals into soil and groundwater.
In the U.S. in 2010, 384 million units of consumer electronics reached the end of their life and were disposed. The United States generated over 3.4 million tons of e-waste in 2012; 29% of this was recycled, while the remaining amount went to incinerators or landfills. Mobile devices were the most-disposed item, but together the 141 million units at the end of their life in 2009 made up less than one percent of the total weight of all discarded items.
A number of manufacturers and retailers participate in takeback programs. Legislation in 25 states exists to cover the disposal and collection of electronic waste: most of this legislation follows two different models. The first model – enacted by 24 states and Washington D.C. – encourages extended producer responsibility, where the manufacturer pays to collect and recycle their products. What types of products are covered under this law varies between states. The second type of program is the advanced recycling fee model, where consumers pay retailers a fee at the time of purchase which is deposited into a statewide recycling fund.
In 2011, a taskforce released the National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship, which provides a framework to encourage electronics stewardship in the U.S. This established a best practices guidelines for the federal government to follow, and voluntarily for retailers and manufacturers to adhere to. The NSES also sought to certify electronics recycling and refurbishment facilities: it is currently a voluntary process, but the NSES is a standard against which third-party auditors assess their practices. By June 2014, 565 facilities obtained voluntary certification.
EU countries dispose of an estimated 6.5 million tonnes of WEEE yearly. Almost half of this volume is large household appliances. An estimated 1 million tonnes of WEEE is thrown away by UK households yearly. In Germany, an estimated 1-1.4 million tonnes of WEEE is discarded annually from private households.
The EU WEEE Directive requires manufacturers and importers to take back products from consumers and ensure they are disposed of using environmentally sound methods. However, the European Commission reports that only one third of e-waste gets collected, treated and reported according to the directive.
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- Armenia
Armenia expects the dialogue with Turkey to result in establishment of diplomatic relations and opening of border, spokesperson says-ARKA.AM
(Read full article on arka.am)
Armenia expects that the dialogue with Turkey will lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations and opening of border between the two countries, the spokesperson for Armenian Foreign Ministry Vahan Hunanyan said today ahead of the first meeting of Armenian and Turkish special envoys, picked up by their governments to negotiate the normalization of relations, slated for January 14 in the Russian capital Moscow.
In an interview with Armenpress news agency, Hunanyan stressed that the Armenian side believes that the Turkish government also shares the approach of starting the dialogue without preconditions.
According to the spokesman, Armenia's expectations from the dialogue with Turkey are essentially the same as they were in the early 1990s.
"We expect that as a result of the process, diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey will be established and the border between the two countries, which was unilaterally closed by Turkey in the early 1990s, will be opened," Hunanyan said.


Although the room was a little small, the price reflected the size and facilities, (no kettle, glasses etc) The trainee on the desk was very helpful, the mgr was not so helpful or friendly.
Free parking with good wifi connection. Nice area to handout out side restaurant area. Breakfast was so so.
We had a nice stay at Hotel Belvedere due to pleasant, forthcoming and professional employees. Funicular that goes to Montecatini Alto is only short walk (2min) away from this hotel.Decent hotel for a short stay or excursions to mayor sightseeings in this area of Toscana.
Camera grande e bagno enorme ! Personale gentile , preparato e professionale ! Oggettistica varia e vintage ! Ampi saloni !
La posizione è ottima, di fronte c'è un grande parcheggio gratuito. La hall è molto grande e bella. La camera era pulita e abbiamo speso poco perchè prenotato con largo anticipo.
Hotel Belvedere This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
Set in its garden, Hotel Belvedere is 0.6 mi from Montecatini Terme Train Station. Offering free Wi-Fi throughout, it has spacious rooms and a gourmet restaurant.
All rooms have a modern décor, parquet floors, and different color themes. Each is equipped with air conditioning, a satellite TV, and a fully equipped private bathroom.
At the Belvedere Hotel you can sit and sunbathe on the shared terrace.
The hotel specializes in traditional Tuscan recipes, and it also serves Mediterranean and international cuisine. Breakfast is served buffet style, and it includes sweet and savory products.
Lucca is 19 mi from the hotel, while Lido di Camaiore with its beaches is a 1-hour drive away.
When would you like to stay at Hotel Belvedere?
This large and modern-style room features air conditioning and free Wi-Fi. It comes a satellite TV and a fully equipped private bathroom.
This larger and modern-style room features air conditioning and free Wi-Fi. It comes a satellite TV and a fully equipped private bathroom.
House Rules Hotel Belvedere takes special requests – add in the next step!
Free! Up to two children under 5 years stay free of charge in a crib.
One child from 5 to 12 years is charged EUR 10 per person per night in a crib.
Hotel Belvedere accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Housekeeping seems a bit irresponsible. No proper cleaning of bathrooms and so proper supply of toiletries were made after two nights of stay in the washroom. Extra Blanket which was provided to me on request when I found my room a bit cold on the first night, was taken away without asking.
Not slot of information available. Nothing to say the breakfast times or evening meal times.
The hotel seems to cater for coach tours, not independent travellers, and this was reflected in the buffet meals which were not worth the price we had to pay.
Information concerning the swimmingpool was not accurate.
NO swimming pool, room was clearly old and need a remodel.


Agreed! Thor was the only Intel chip dude who could hold his own with THUNDER. And I bet THUNDER loved every second of it..even when Thor called him Chuckie...LOL Well I hope Ole THUNDER is up there riding his favorite horse.


In honor of National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID) on Monday, February 11, each Unit 4 school is inviting parents to visit their child's school and take part in special activities. Activities include musical performances, scavenger hunts, class visits, luncheons and more.
See the summary of events at https://www.champaignschools.org/news-room/article/22211.


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Prayer Book Anglican: Saint Martin's Day - Again!
It should be clear to anyone reading this blog that I have a devotion to Saint Martin of Tours. But then I am an American and his feast days fall upon two major American holidays, his translation on Independence Day and the celebration of his celestial birthday on Veteran's Day. Somehow, in my own mind that makes him an almost essential American saint although he was born in what is now Hungary and died in what is now France.
Not only do I think of him as being uniquely American, but also as being quite a representative of classical Anglicanism. After all, his fame and possibly some of his relics were carried to the British Isles well before it interested the Roman Church. St Ninian of Scotland was a disciple of his and dedicated his major missionary church to him and it was in a church dedicated to St Martin in Canterbury, that the first Roman mission set up practice. In short, his cult was carried to the British well before they fell victims to the papacy.
Since the 1928 American prayer book has no calendar of black letter holy days although it does have liturgical provision for "A Saint's Day," those of us in the Continuum who reject the pseudo-papalism of the missals must look to the calendars of the English and Scots' prayer books with perhaps a nod to that of the Welsh Church with its richness of Celtic and early British saints. We can also look to their revisions of the 28/29 period for propers appropriate to these days as being well within the prayer book and Anglican tradition. We could, of course, look backwards to the Sarum and other English missals, but as long as we have recourse to the British books, I think we need not look elsewhere. The important thing is to look to our own history and its heroes to inspire us to do what they did which was to seek God completely and embrace and live the Christian faith fully which means we are called to follow the example of the saints.
Collect. O God, the light of the faithful, and shepherd of souls, who didst set blessed Martin to be a bishop in the Church, that he might feed thy sheep by his word and guide them by his example; Grant us, we pray thee, to keep the faith which he taught, and to follow in his footsteps; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Epistle. 1 Tim. 3. 15-16. Thou knowest how thou oughtest.. . into glory.
Gospel. Mark 4. 26-32. Jesus said, So is the kingdom.. . shadow of it.
When I was writing that post I went looking for either the English Book of '28 or the Scots' of 29 so I could include just that information. For some reason I could find neither.
One of the reasons that I am so fond of St. Martin is that I once knew a man whose family traced their surname made to twin infants whom St Martin baptized, thinking them dean, only to have the cold water shock them into deeper breathing and so apparently restoring them to life. The boys were called 'les agneau de St Martin' which in time was shortened to Agneaux. Their descendents went to England with William the Conquerer so they were as a family a very long time Anglican.
You might also check out the calendar of the BCP Canada 1962.
Thanks for sharing. I studied at Biola, Talbot Seminary-several classes. I 've a MBA in Christian Apologetice and MBA in Christian Ministry. So, I eas truly blessed to read this blog.


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Easily get rid of annoying flying pests with this extendable fly swatter. Great for camping, picnics and other outdoor activities. Fly swatters are an excellent alternative to harmful pesticides. Swatters measure approximately 26" long when fully extended and 10" when collapsed. Comes packaged in a hanging poly bag with a UPC label.
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Show then how proud fan you are buy owning this Denver Gloves. In an affordable yet good quality product, you will definitely love this. Wear this whenever you want and feel comfortable.


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More Saudi women named to top banking, finance posts
A Saudi man looks at stocks at the Tadawul Saudi Stock Exchange, in Riyadh. AP
AFP Monday, 20 February 2017
Women have been named to head Saudi Arabia's stock exchange and major banks, the institutions have announced.
Samba Financial Group on Sunday said Rania Mahmoud Nashar had begun work as chief executive officer.
The announcement came three days after the Saudi stock exchange, known as Tadawul, named Sarah al-Suhaimi as chairman of its board.
ALSO: Three things you didn't know about Saudi women
In a notice to the Saudi stock exchange, Samba said Nashar had almost 20 year's experience in banking and had followed an "executive career" programme at Samba.
Samba also said that Nashar was the first Saudi woman certified as an anti-money laundering specialist by a respected American association of experts who combat financial crime.
Her appointment as CEO followed the resignation of general manager Sajjad Razvi for personal reasons. Tadawul's Sarah al-Suhaimi is the CEO of NCB Capital, the investment banking arm of National Commercial Bank.
She was the first female head of a Saudi investment bank when named to that post in 2014, according to Bloomberg News.
It said she is expected to remain at the bank while leading Tadawul, the Arab world's largest bourse. As part of a wideranging social and economic reform drive to cope with fallen oil revenues, Saudi Arabia is trying to get more women working.
By 2020 the Islamic kingdom wants to boost the proportion of women in the job market to 28 percent from 23 percent last year.
Meanwhile, sources within the Saudi Arab National Bank revealed to Al-Arabiya.net the appointment of Latifah al Sabhan as finance director, a move that comes on the heel of recent appointments of Saudi women in leading positions at the long male-dominated banking sector.
The Arab National Bank profit has dropped by five percent in the fourth quarter last year, compared to the same period in 2015, below the expectation of SR720 mln.
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From the mind of pro-skateboarder, Rob Dyrdek, come this rad new series based on Dyrdek's younger years as a skateboarder packed with a whole lot of awesome!
Lil Rob and his wacky crew of energetic skateboarders, the Wild Grinders, are all about having fun and grinding their way through Sprawl City! Whether it's filming stunts on homemade ramps or the local skate park, the Wild Grinders always seem to come up against their "evil nemesis" Stubford Hucksterball, clumsy skater and son of local industrialist, Track Hucksterball of Hucksterball Industries. No matter what the adventure, the Wild Grinders have what it takes to find their way out of trouble and make it home in time for dinner.


Seventy total graduates are making a difference as Peace Corps volunteers. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is ranked third nationally on the annual list of colleges who produced the most Peace Corps recruits. The U of M is on the list for the 19th consecutive year.
"The Learning Abroad Center is extremely proud of our alumni representation in the Peace Corps," said Martha Johnson, assistant dean of Learning Abroad in the Global Programs & Strategy Alliance. "It speaks to our campus's international engagement, strategic partnership with the Peace Corps and aligns with our goal of preparing students for truly global careers."
Since 1961, more than 1,500 University of Minnesota alumni have continued this tradition by putting their education and experience to work as Peace Corps volunteers. The U of M offers a variety of ways to become involved in the Peace Corps community, where volunteers can learn a new language, exchange ideas and take part in their communities as partners and friends for a unique, rewarding experience.
"I love working with students at the U of M because I always get students from a wide range of academic backgrounds, but they all have a passion for service and a curiosity for what it means to be a global citizen," said Katie Page, Peace Corps campus representative. "Anytime I table at career fairs or give a short presentation to various classrooms across campus, I always get thoughtful questions from students about how their interests and skill sets might be useful in a Peace Corps position. It's not an easy decision to commit to a two-year service as a Peace Corps Volunteer, but students at the U step up to that challenge year after year."
View the annual Peace Corps ranking here.
The Peace Corps sends Americans with a passion for service abroad on behalf of the United States to work with communities and create lasting change. Through their PeaceCorps experience, volunteers gain a unique cultural understanding and a life-long commitment to service that positions them to succeed in today's global economy. For more information, visit https://www.peacecorps.gov.
The Learning Abroad Center in the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance is the University of Minnesota's comprehensive resource for study, intern, community engagement, research, and volunteer experiences worldwide. We provide innovative international learning experiences that expand and redefine the world for a diverse population of students, colleagues and staff. Through collaboration and individual attention, the Learning Abroad Center continues to promote empowerment, development, understanding, and responsibility in the global community. We offer a full range of advising and support services to students, including program selection, academic planning, financial planning, registration, credit, cultural adjustment, and reentry.
A variety of program options—250 programs in over 70 countries—have been developed to address the diverse needs of students. Programs vary in length, level, academic focus, teaching format, language requirements, cost, and degree of independence demanded of the participant.